Skip to content

Play

The BFG

3.0/5· 1 log

Royal Shakespeare Theatre · Stratford-upon-Avon

Premiered 2025 at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Sophie is carried away to Giant Country, where she discovers that one giant is very different from the others.

FamilyFantasy
The story

Tom Wells adapts Roald Dahl’s story for the stage, following orphan Sophie and the dream-catching, snozzcumber-eating BFG after she is taken from her bed one night. Daniel Evans directs this Royal Shakespeare Company production, which uses puppetry and shifting ideas of scale to bring Giant Country to the stage.

In the room

A family production that keeps the book’s mixture of silliness and darker danger. Giant puppets, live music, illusions and changes of scale are central to the staging, alongside Dahl’s invented language and the relationship between Sophie and the BFG.

Good fit if you like

imaginative family theatre, puppetry, Roald Dahl and stories that mix broad comedy with a slightly darker edge.

Details

From 25 Nov 2025

Community stats

Top tags

puppetry1family-show1roald-dahl1scale-play1disjointed-story1

Recent logs

Cast & crew

No cast or crew details yet.

Spotted a bug? Got an idea? I'd love to hear it. This opens a quick email draft - takes 30 seconds.